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Arusha is the safari capital of East Africa, a bustling, vibrant town with the streets filled with 4X4 game viewing vehicles criss-crossing the potholed roads. Maasai warriors in full regalia stroll the streets, mingling with tourists in crisp khaki,...
Categories: Arusha
Categories: Bagamoyo
Categories: Baobab Valley
Dar es Salaam in east Tanzania is located on an arm of the Indian Ocean. It is the country's largest city and former capital, chief seaport, and principal commercial, manufacturing, and educational centre. Rail links extend inland to Arusha in the n...
Categories: Dar es Salaam
Categories: Fanjove Island
Categories: Gombe Stream National Park
This town in Tanzania overlooks the Ruaha River and borders the dry belt of central Tanzania. However the cool breeze of the Southern Highlands seeds its already abundant agriculture. With its beautiful scenery and game parks, Iringa is the perfect d...
Categories: Iringa
Categories: Karatu
Situated in the remote Western Rift Valley between lakes Rukwa and Tanganyika about 870 mi/1,400 km west of Dar es Salaam, the 2,750-sq-mi/4,500-sq-km Katavi is Tanzania's third-largest national park and possibly its most remote. Its isolation, diffi...
Categories: Katavi National Park
Categories: Kigoma
Categories: Kilimanjaro International Airport
Categories: Kilwa Kisiwani
This large town is a popular lunch stop for travelers by bus between Dar es Salaam and Moshi or Arusha. Visit the cathedral church dedicated to St. Michael or taste the exotic fruits and other delicacies at the neighboring stalls upon waiting for you...
Categories: Korogwe
Categories: Lake Eyasi
Categories: Lake Manyara Airport
Approaching Lake Manyara National Park the view is spectacular. From the east the Rift Valley escarpment looms on the horizon forming an impressive backdrop to the lake. From the west, the Park lies in a green strip below and the lake glistens in the...
Categories: Lake Manyara National Park
The world's longest and second-deepest freshwater body, Lake Tanganyika is also exceptionally beautiful, with its crystal clear waters hemmed in by the lush, green mountains of Tanzania's Rift Valley escarpment. Kigoma, the main lake port, is an attr...
Categories: Lake Tanganyika
Categories: Latham Island
Mafia Island is a spectacular destination off the coast of Tanzania. The Island's Marine Park features, coral reefs, sandy beaches, and sparkling lagoons. To learn more about traditional village culture, visitors go on safari tours and visit local vi...
Categories: Mafia Island
Mahale Mountains National Park is home to some of Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees. Located in western Tanzania and named after the Mahale Mountain range, the area was originally inhabited by the Batongwe and Holoholo people. It was onl...
Categories: Mahale Mountains National Park
Marangu is a busy little village 17 mi/27 km east of Moshi that most people visit to climb the Marangu Route up the mountain—the entrance to the Kilimanjaro National Park is 3 mi/5 km beyond the village. Marangu is also an excellent base for gentler ...
Categories: Marangu
Tanzania's medium-sized Mikumi National Park (650 sq mi/1,685 sq km) offers good viewing of giraffes, impalas, warthogs, elephants, lions, hippos and other animals. The landscape is woodlands and grassy plains fed by the floodplains of the Mkata Rive...
Categories: Mikumi National Park
Categories: Misali Island
Kilimanjaro is a giant stratovolcano that began forming about a million years ago, when lava spilled from the Rift Valley zone. Two of its three peaks, Mawenzi and Shira, are extinct while Kibo (the highest peak) is dormant and could erupt again. The...
Categories: Mount Kilimanjaro
Categories: Mount Meru
Categories: Mto wa Mbu
Categories: Musoma
Mwanza is one of the best places in Tanzania to see Lake Victoria, though it is far off the usual tourist itinerary despite being the country's second largest city. It has an attractive setting on the lakeshore and is dominated by Bismarck Rock—a mas...
Categories: Mwanza
An ancient hole in northern Tanzania, Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa's best wildlife-viewing spots since it acts like a natural cage; the crater's depth makes for a difficult escape for some animals, but most have no need to leave, finding plenty...
Categories: Ngorongoro
Established in 1922, the Selous Game Reserve is Africa's largest wildlife reserve (21,235sq mi/55,000 sq km), and is in fact roughly the size of Switzerland and four times larger than the Serengeti. The park is named after Captain Frederick Selous, a...
Categories: Nyerere National Park
The second-largest island in the Zanzibar Archipelago can be reached by air or ferry. Pemba lies approximately 50 mi/80 km off the Tanzanian mainland directly east of Tanga. Compared to its neighbor Zanzibar Island, which is heavily developed for tou...
Categories: Pemba Island
Ruaha National Park, the second-largest national park in Tanzania, lies about a two-hour drive northwest from Iringa, but is most normally visited by air in conjunction with the Selous Game Reserve. Wild and relatively little-visited, Ruaha is known ...
Categories: Ruaha National Park
Categories: Rubondo Island
Categories: Rukyira
Saadani National Park is located in the northern coast of Tanzania, Africa. It is the 13th National park and it is a wildlife sanctuary consisting of the big 5.Here you will find a diverse range of habitation and vegetation, from a marine life to ter...
Categories: Saadani National Park
Today, the Serengeti National Park helps protect the greatest and most varied collection of terrestrial wildlife on earth, and one of the last great migratory systems still intact. The Serengeti is the jewel in the crown of Tanzania's protected a...
Categories: Serengeti
The fairly uncrowded coastal town of Tanga (meaning "sail" in Kiswahili) was briefly the German colonial capital following the treaty between the Sultan of Zanzibar and the German East Africa Company. Today there is little to see but a walk around th...
Categories: Tanga
As you enter Tarangire National Park a vast number of baobabs catch your eye. The gently rolling countryside is dotted with these majestic trees, which seem to dwarf the animals that feed beneath them. The park is spectacular in the dry season when m...
Categories: Tarangire
The Eastern Arc Mountains is the collective name used to describe a chain of mountain ranges in Kenya and Tanzania that are influenced by the climate of the Indian Ocean. Blanketed in ancient forests, which support literally thousands of taxa found n...
Categories: Udzungwa National Park
For many centuries, traders from Europe, India, the Orient and Arabia were lured to these shores. It was from here explorer David Livingstone set off on his last expedition into the heart of the continent. Today, as you walk along the winding street...
Categories: Zanzibar